October 11, 2024 9 min read @Brett Wines We’re All Just Looking for Connection We’ve been working to bring components of Quip’s technology into Slack with the canvas feature,…
September 17, 2024 14 min read @Archie Gunasekara Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure At Slack, we manage tens of thousands of EC2 instances that host a variety of services, including our Vitess…
May 21, 2024 8 min read @Slack Engineering How We Built Slack AI To Be Secure and Private At Slack, we’ve long been conservative technologists. In other words, when we invest in leveraging a new…
January 18, 2024 15 min read @Sean McIlroy The Scary Thing About Automating Deploys Most of Slack runs on a monolithic service simply called “The Webapp”. It’s big – hundreds of developers…
December 6, 2023 12 min read @Archie Gunasekara Our Journey Migrating to AWS IMDSv2 We are heavy users of Amazon Compute Compute Cloud (EC2) at Slack — we run approximately 60,000 EC2 instances…
November 28, 2023 10 min read @Yuriy Loginov Managing Slack Connect Slack Connect, AKA shared channels, allows communication between different Slack workspaces, via channels shared…
September 29, 2023 6 min read @Claire Adams Executing Cron Scripts Reliably At Scale Cron scripts are responsible for critical Slack functionality. They ensure reminders execute on time, email…
August 25, 2023 10 min read @Slack Engineering Traffic 101: Packets Mostly Flow Slack handles billions of inbound network requests per day, all of which traverse through our edge…